[Corpora] [Corpora-List] Named entities and abstract codes

[maxwell]

On 2014-11-03 08:38, Jannik Strötgen wrote:
> with 'rigid designators' being something that "in any possible
> world [...] designates the same object" (Kripke, 1980: p.48)

I'm not a philosopher (and I suppose most of us aren't, making my 
comment slightly off-topic), but: this definition strikes me as odd.  
What about the possible world where I'm twins (Kripke discussed the 
world in which I don't exist at all); or where  Minneapolis and St. Paul 
are a single city, or West Virginia didn't split off from Virginia, or 
Sudan got split into two countries?  (Oops, the latter is true in our 
world.  But maybe there are philosophers in other possible worlds who 
can use that example because Sudan wasn't split up in their world.)

As for the original question, I suppose the right answer is that there 
is no right answer; one should define the categories in whatever way 
makes sense for the task.  Which I think is Satoshi Sekine's answer.

    Mike Maxwell
    University of Maryland

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